When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.